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And you would be absolutely right. Better find a decent private school in the place you are moving to.I don't expect schools to teach kids much in the way of anything, especially not morals.
And you would be absolutely right. Better find a decent private school in the place you are moving to.I don't expect schools to teach kids much in the way of anything, especially not morals.
It's that or homeschooling.And you would be absolutely right. Better find a decent private school in the place you are moving to.
Either one is better.It's that or homeschooling.
True but if the schools are actively undermining what you taught them at home then you have a problem. "There is no such thing as right and wrong. There are just gray areas. You can't hurt their feeeeeelings by punishing them. It doesn't matter if they get the right or wrong answer. It is the process that matters and if they feeeeeel good about it..........". Yeah right. No wonder we are falling behind the world in all areas of science and the like----not only declining but NO standards.If you don't learn the difference between right and wrong *before you start school*, it doesn't much matter where you get your formal education. I believe the moral values any of us carry with us thru our lives are the ones we were taught before we were old enough to know we were learning.
If you don't learn the difference between right and wrong *before you start school*, it doesn't much matter where you get your formal education. I believe the moral values any of us carry with us thru our lives are the ones we were taught before we were old enough to know we were learning.
Pawnbrokers are supposed to ask for identification and keep records of every customer and transaction. They can be held responsible for receiving stolen goods if they do not comply with the law. They are inspected and their stock checked by the police regularly.
If your city does not have such laws, or they are not enforced, well...
Pushback is one thing. Being told you and your parents are stupid and evil for believing certain ways is quite another.
The schools (try to) undermine everything you teach your children. "Oh, your parents taught you such&such because an antiquated book told them so? Your parents are intolerant! They believe in a sky being? Your parents aren't very smart, are they? But you know better, right Jimmy?"
Once they convince them the parents know nothing and are wrong on all counts, they can stuff their heads with all the social engineering they want to.
Because it sure isn't science, math, literature, and English they're putting in their heads.
I have never seen Honey Booboo. I made the mistake one time of leaving it on TLC and this show about cld beauty pageants came on. It was horrid!
I couldn't believe the outfits and heavy makeup and hairstyles these little kids have to wear.
Right on all accounts. You really don't know how insidious they are until you send your children there and find out just how bad it is. REALLY bad.
That is exactly what public school is trying to do. You got it.or they'll end up not really *having* beliefs at all, they just have phrases and slogans they've been taught by rote.
That is exactly what public school is trying to do. You got it.
I have a good friend who teaches history part-time at a local university. He has been unsuccessful in finding a full time position so he decided to go back and take a masters in education so he could teach high school (apparently a masters degree in history qualifies you to teach college but not h.s.) Anyways, when he applied to this program to teach HIGH SCHOOL, he had to pass an exam to prove he could read and comprehend on an 8th grade level????!!!!
This is why my kids are not in public school around here.
I know a lot of kids who learn the same way from their parents, unfortunately -- they teach them the "what" but not the "why." "We're against that. We're for this." "Why?" "Because."
It's like the kids in my day who recited the Pledge of Allegience every morning like it was some kind of incantation, but it never occured to them what it actually meant, Or people who recite The Lord's Prayer and never bother to think about the meaning behind the words, or even how they should be applied in daily life. Or the people who quote their favorite talk-show host or cable TV pundit or whatever without ever thinking beyond the cheap talking points.
It isn't just schools -- it's everywhere.
I think there's a place for things like consumer education -- teaching kids how they're being gulled by advertising and marketing can only become more valuable as "media" becomes more and more pervasive. I'd volunteer to teach that class myself. And AIDS education isn't really much different than the filmstrips about the dangers of VD we saw in hygeine class years ago. And we had environmental education forty years ago, but called it "Earth Science."
What do we need more of is home economics/practical living education or whatever they want to call it now. There is no excuse -- none -- for a grown adult not knowing how to sew on a button, and I'd like to have a dollar for every kid I've had to show how to do that over the years. And *Civics* ought to make a comeback -- not "Problems of Democracy" or whatever they call it, but actual civics: how society functions, how government works at all levels, and the responsibility of the individual to the greater society. Civics was an essential part of the curriciulum up until the '80s, and it needs to be again.
I agree there's way too much emphasis on extracurricular activities as being "important to your college resume" -- for one thing they interfere with kids getting an after-school job, which should be as much a part of growing up as getting a drivers' license.